109 search results for
Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 1:
Provide comprehensive advocacy and support for individuals being released from the hospital towards transition to shelter/housing.
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Recommendation 9:
Provide additional support staff that can help youth sustain housing and wellness during these challenging times.
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 93:
Protection of Children of Abused Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women: The Ministries of Children and Family Development, Attorney General, Public Safety and Solicitor General, Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, Housing and Social Development, Health Services, and Education, police, Legal Services Society, BC Housing, and community-based agencies should work with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to develop strategies to guide coordination of policies, practices, and appropriate risk related information-sharing to ensure that the safety and best interests of children of abused immigrant, refugee, and non-status mothers are considered as priorities in decisions that affect their mothers status in Canada. (p.3)
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Recommendation 26:
Police Services must create a provincial practice direction for police officers upon release of an accused, adopting the following recommendations of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association: c. police should release individuals under the most minimally restricting conditions available in the circumstance, taking into consideration an individual’s need to access shelter, social services, health care, and community, as well as the possible disability status of the individual, including addiction.
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Recommendation 131:
Next Steps…Progressive policies and action strategies need to be developed in such areas as employment equity, subsidized housing and stable funding for ethno-cultural service and settlement agencies. (p.35)
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Recommendation 7:
- Pilot Island Wide ‘healing communities’
- Conduct research; gather data
- Expand Managed Alcohol Residence programming
- Provide culturally supportive housing
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Recommendation 8:
- Open an Indigenous Healing Centre in Victoria for the ASC
- Provide culturally supportive housing
- Operate residence MAP programming
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Recommendation 188:
It is recommended that jurisdictions explore ways to ensure the provision of a continuum of accessible, comprehensive and co-ordinated community-based and government services to victims and their families, including…access to affordable and safe housing…(p.92)
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Recommendation 8:
Index the BC Child Opportunity Benefit to inflation to ensure the value of the benefit does not erode over time.
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Recommendation 13:
Increased flexibility around the timeline when a youth needs to leave care. There should be no hard and fast deadlines or cut-off because a youth is nineteen. Youth are facing extraordinary challenges in transition planning, so need time to secure permanent housing.
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